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Thomas A Walmisley’s “Remember O Lord”: Chichester Cathedral 1981 (Alan Thurlow)

From a live BBC radio broadcast from Chichester Cathedral, 18 March 1981, with the choir of Chichester Cathedral, directed by Alan Thurlow. Organ: Jeremy Suter. Organ scholar: Kenneth Sweetman. Thomas Attwood Walmisley was born in London in January 1814, the son of Thomas Forbes Walmisley, a composer of church music and glees. Thomas junior became organist of Croydon Parish Church in 1831 before moving to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1833. At Cambridge, where he became known for his anthems and other compositions, he was simultaneously organist at Trinity College and St John’s College, while eventually graduating as a BA at Jesus College. He became Professor of Music at Cambridge University in 1836, aged only 22, and remained in all three posts until his untimely death in Sussex, twenty years later. His 1838 Lenten anthem “Remember O Lord what is come upon us” is notable for its structure, especially its long organ introduction, its solo and quartet passages and its concluding fugue, whose subject is augmented in the bass, possibly in homage to Johann Sebastian Bach, for the re-introduction of whose music to the British public Walmisley was partly responsible. The text is from Lamentations 5 vv. 1, 7, 15, 17 and 19: Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us; consider, and behold our reproach. Our fathers have sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities. The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim. Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.